"Your co-worker in Christ's Kingdom." (1877-1949) Co-founder with Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker movement. All tweets are quotes, most from his Easy Essays.
Joined March 2018
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Peter Maurin retweeted
To use impure means
to reach pure aims
is to take the wrong road.
You cannot go where you want to go
by taking a road which does not lead you there.
Having pure aims
and using pure means
is making the right use of freedom.
Peter Maurin retweeted
The proclamation of the Word of God becomes ineffective if it loses contact with reality, with human hopes and sufferings, and if it uses incomprehensible, uncommunicative, or anachronistic language. In every age, the Church is called to propose anew the Word of God in a language capable of taking flesh in history and reaching hearts. #GeneralAudience vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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We are all lives on a journey, to whom God continues to inspire His dreams through prophets of yesterday and of today, to free humanity from ancient and new forms of slavery, involving young and old, poor and rich, men and women, saints and sinners in the works of His mercy and in the wonders of His justice. The Lord makes no noise, yet His Kingdom sprouts and grows in every corner of the world.
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The common funds must be administered with strict honesty, in such a way that a member may receive assistance in proportion to his necessities.
Peter Maurin retweeted
To stick up for one's country
when one's country is wrong
does not make
the country right. (4)
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What we give to the poor
for Christ's sake
is what we carry with us
when we die. (3/4)
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“...come to think of it, the Gospel did not say anything about [St. Joseph’s] praying. But with the Benedictines, work is prayer. So we need to pray to St. Joseph to teach us how to work, what to work at, and where the work is.”
- Servant of God Dorothy Day
#StJosephtheWorker
Peter Maurin retweeted
Thanks to "Gilbert Magazine" for running a wonderful review of "The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin" in their November/December 2020 issue. And Thanks to Matt Riley for reviewing the book.
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Peter Maurin retweeted
Interested in audio readings of Dorothy Day’s famous Catholic Worker essays?
Check out the new podcast “A Day A Week” by @Civil_Philip
adayaweek.podbean.com/
@CW_Movement @DayGuild @PeterUsedToSay
Peter Maurin retweeted
@PeterUsedToSay that to be a “radical” meant getting to the root (Latin: radix) of things
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Really enjoyed this @vcunningham piece about Jefferson’s cutting and pasting of the gospels (I prefer the in-print headline and nod to Depeche Mode 😂) newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
Peter Maurin retweeted
This is one of my all time favorites @jesuitczerny
The Eucharist Commits Us to the Poor churchlifejournal.nd.edu/art…
Peter Maurin retweeted
"When the Sermon on the Mount
is the standard of values
then Christ is the Leader."
@PeterUsedToSay
easyessays.org/when-christ-i…
Peter Maurin retweeted
Agronomic Universities
- where
scholars are workers and where
workers are scholars.
Peter Maurin retweeted
The liturgy informs the sociology- this was always the way. Peter understood St John Chrysostom who drew on the connection between the real presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament and his real presence in the poor and oppressed.
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This appears silly but there is real insight and wisdom from Peter here. He is getting at the way in which many vol orgs start off serving a need but quickly become self-serving and bureaucratic the minute we need to pay organisers and coordinators. Peter points us to anarchism
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New online course: "Liturgy and Communion Economy" from @NotreDame: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Par. 90, “Fratelli Tutti” Significantly, many small communities living in desert areas developed a remarkable system of welcoming pilgrims as an exercise of the sacred duty of hospitality. The medieval monastic communities did likewise, as we see from the Rule of Saint Benedict.